die off
英 [daɪ ɒf]
美 [daɪ ɔːf]
（一组生命体）一个接一个地死去直到死光
英英释义
verb
- become extinct
- Dinosaurs died out
双语例句
- We are on a lower dimension of life and as such instead of combusting into bits, we would gradually fade as all life would die off in the dance of extinction.
我们身处在更低些的生命维度上，这样一来，我们不会焚化成碎片，而是会逐渐湮灭，因为一切生命都会在绝灭的舞蹈中死去。 - As sensitive organisms die off, resistant strains may come to dominate, and over time an antimalarial drug can lose its ability to cure infection.
随着敏感生物体相继死亡，耐药株开始占首要地位，并且抗疟药可在一段时间内丧失其治愈感染的能力。 - If its stem cells are eradicated, the rest of a tumour may die off.
若肿瘤干细胞被消灭，则其余部分也会相继死亡。 - And what are they going to do when all the old ladies die off?
也许你要问了，那这些老太太都驾鹤西归了怎么办呢？ - Contraction of front and side parts as cells die off was observed in some subjects in their thirties, but it was still not evident in some sixty and seventy-year-olds.
有的人（大脑）前部和侧部的收缩随着细胞的死亡在三十多岁时就能被观察到了，但是也有些人直到六七岁依然不明显。 - Pollution from sewage or farm waste can cause excess algae growth, starving the water of oxygen and causing fish and other species to die off.
从下水道或者农场里出来的污染水引起藻类的过度生长，造成水里的氧气严重缺失，以至于鱼类和别的物种相继死去。 - • will location-based check-ins, one of the latest tech trends pioneered by services like foursquare, Gowalla, and Loopt, die off this year?
•基于位置的签到是最新技术趋势之一，Foursquare、Gowalla和Loopt等服务是该领域的领跑者，不过，这项技术会在今年消亡吗？ - Contrary to the accepted wisdom that humans don't make new fat cells, scientists have found that our bodies constantly generate fresh cells each year to replace those that naturally die off.
人体不再产生新的脂肪细胞，与这个广泛接受的结论相反，科学家们发现：我们的体内每年都在不断的产生新的细胞来替代自然衰老死亡的细胞。 - Researchers isolated two proteins, known as CCSA-3 and CCSA-4, that appear to be released into the bloodstream when some of the cancer cells in a tumor die off.
研究人员分离出两种蛋白命名为CCSA-3和CCSA-4，这两种蛋白似乎在肿瘤一些癌细胞死亡后被释放入血流。 - Each time it drained, it caused entire species of sea plants and creatures to die off.
每次干涸，它都会造成整个海洋植物和动物的消亡。